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| Original Title: | Fever Pitch |
| ISBN: | 1573226882 (ISBN13: 9781573226882) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Nick Hornby |
| Setting: | London, England(United Kingdom) England |
| Literary Awards: | William Hill Sports Book of the Year (1992) |
Nick Hornby
Paperback | Pages: 247 pages Rating: 3.75 | 33003 Users | 1423 Reviews
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| Title | : | Fever Pitch |
| Author | : | Nick Hornby |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 247 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 1998 by Riverhead Books (first published 1992) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Sports. Football |
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In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field.Nick Hornby has been a football fan since the moment he was conceived. Call it predestiny. Or call it preschool. Fever Pitch is his tribute to a lifelong obsession. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, Hornby's award-winning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandom — its agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young mens' coming-of-age stories. Fever Pitch is one for the home team. But above all, it is one for everyone who knows what it really means to have a losing season.
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Ratings: 3.75 From 33003 Users | 1423 ReviewsEvaluation Out Of Books Fever Pitch
NB: I received a free copy of this book from the Goodreads First Reads Program, but that has not affected the content of my review.I wanted to like this more than I did. I've read several of Nick Hornby's novels, and as I generally enjoy reading about sports and I enjoy memoirs and humor, I figured this book would be a gimme for me. But sadly, it wasn't. To say that Nick Hornby was obsessed with football/soccer is an extremely large understatement. And like all people with true obsessions, ifI got this much elusive book from an online store which keeps old books, big thanks to my dear friend who helped me here :-)This book is a perfect depiction of a fan's obsession with his/her beloved team! It is a real funny autobiography in which the writer's life is measured not in years, but in seasons - not by the Gregorian calendar, but by the Gunners(Arsenal Football Club) fixture list. I've read no better account of what being a fan really means :-) The best part in the book is the
I came to Fever Pitch in a slightly roundabout way. I'm seeing someone with a couple of Nick Hornby books on her shelf, and feeling I had read some rather poor books recently -- and that few of my ways to book recommendations were leading me to books I enjoyed of late -- I had been thinking of giving Hornby a go. I still procrastinated it for a while, but I was thinking fondly, recently, of my experience with Jonathan Tropper and I happened to see something online comparing the two.So I looked
Fever pitch was an autobiographical account of an obsessive Arsenal fan whose happiness, sadness and everything depend on Arsenals success or failure. Most of us, Indian football fans, started watching English football from around 1996. That is the time when ESPN start telecasting one or two matches per weekend. That too most of them were United and Liverpool games. This is why India has lot of fans from these two clubs.For the guys like me, who started around 2003/04 season, Arsenal was all.
In a book filled with resonating passages about football, fandom and the Arsenal, this one stands out:"One thing I know for sure about being a fan is this: it is not a vicarious pleasure, despite all appearances to the contrary, and those who say that they would rather do than watch are missing the point. Football is a context where watching becomes doing not in the aerobic sense, because watching a game, smoking your head off while doing so, drinking after it has finished and eating chips on
First Hornby I've read--managed to avoid the brief college craze after High Fidelity came out...but now wish I hadn't.My roommate lent me this book after it came up randomly in a conversation...as I approach 30 and sports fandom becomes more ridiculous proportional to my age, I find myself having to defend my enthusiasm for baseball more and more. Being in Europe probably has something to do with this too. In fact, discussing my love of baseball generally turns into an argument for/against the
I just finished reading this book for the second time. The first time I read it, I probably would have given it five stars; something about the glimpse into Hornby's world enthralled me, but then I wasn't quite as familiar with the lifestyle of being a Premiership fan as I am now. Set up as a series of essays, Fever Pitch depicts the life of a man who is much, much more than a casual Arsenal fan, while much less than a "hooligan." It caters to everyone who finds themselves in between those two
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